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		coldtea on Oct 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? (... >I interpeted “feelings” as “explicit emotional introspection”. There’s a little of this in the Oddysey Huh? There's lots of this in Oddysey. Even more so in ancient tragedy, and whole lots in lyrical poetry, Sappho etc.

drb91 on Oct 20, 2018 [–]

Note I said “a little”, not “little”. You can quibble about the amount but I was trying to explicitly say that the Oddysey IS an example of this in ancient lit.

Still nothing compared to Macbeth or Hamlet, though.

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